Domestic violence against women in eastern India: a population-based study on prevalence and related issues.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence against women is now widely recognised as an important public health problem, owing to its health consequences. Violence against women among many Indian communities on a regularly basis goes unreported. The objective of this study is to report the prevalence and other related issues of various forms of domestic violence against women from the eastern zone of India.

Methods

It is a population-based study covering both married women (n = 1718) and men (n = 1715) from three of the four states of Eastern India selected through a systematic multistage sampling strategy. Interviews were conducted using separate pre-piloted structured questionnaires for women (victimization) and men (perpetration). Women were asked whether their husband or any other family membe

SUBMITTER: Babu BV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2685379 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature